I’ve written about this concept briefly a few different times, but thought I’d circle back for a deeper dive. The law of progressive overload demands that we regularly and incrementally increase the training demand if we expect to see continued progress. Most of us interpret this to mean adding weight the bar, and this is a great idea, particularly because […]
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Workouts That Really Work: Why You Should Be Using Primary Pattern Programming
No matter how well designed your long-term training plan is, if your actual workouts suck, your plan simply won’t deliver the goods. And sadly, many people’s workouts do in fact suck (relative to their goals), so recently I set out to identify the differences between how I train people (and myself for that matter), compared […]
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How To Identify And Shore Up Weaknesses In Your Fitness Preparation
I view training as a system, where you attempt to exploit a variety of inputs for the purposes of creating a specific output. For most people, the “output” is typically some combination of stronger, leaner, and/or more muscular. Think of this system as analogous to a factory conveyor belt, where the various components are assembled into the final product. On an actual assembly line, your […]
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